I’ve got a favor to ask of you, one that could lift the spirits of some people who could use a kind word from you. It will not cost you a cent.
We’ve all lost a lot during the coronavirus pandemic. Many lost jobs and incomes. Most can’t visit with relatives and friends. But this year’s graduating high school seniors have lost things that they accepted on faith for a decade that they would get to experience, things that most of us took for granted: proms, graduations, parties and that communal celebration of their passage into adulthood.
The favor I ask is that you give them a kind word. The Plain Dealer and cleveland.com have created a place where our magnificent community can offer thoughts, congratulations and wisdom to the class of 2020.
We’re publishing all of the sentiments online, and our aim, if we get enough of them, is to publish a keepsake section in The Plain Dealer, so that the graduating seniors of 2020 can remember how we rallied around them in spite of what they have lost.
All it takes is for you to visit here (https://tinyurl.com/wishthemwell)
and type your message into a form. You can direct your message to a specific graduate or to all of the region’s high school seniors. Again, adding your message is free. (We are, though, looking for advertisers who might want to sponsor the special Plain Dealer section. If you’re interested, please send a note to our chief revenue officer, Kate Weber, at kweber@advance-ohio.com.)
Imagining how the class of 2020 feels at this moment is not that difficult. Most of the people reading this had the experiences they are missing. We entered school as tiny people and spent 12 years aiming for the final months of our senior year in high school and the exultant feeling of accomplishment and celebration for having succeeded. You remember it. You’re probably smiling now as you think back on it.
Graduations are among the biggest moments of young lives, but this year’s class won’t walk across a stage in front of their families, won’t get to celebrate the big moment the way the rest of us did. And for those going to college next year, that experience will be much changed. They will be a freshman class in a somewhat forbidding landscape.
Please, let them know you care. Northeast Ohio is generous of spirit. The class of 2020 could use some of our kindness just now.
Wish them good fortune. Congratulate them. Offer them some of the wisdom of your years. And help them celebrate in such a way that when they think back on these peculiar months, they might think to pull out the special Plain Dealer section published just for them, and remember anew how this region came together to help them celebrate their unique passage from childhood.
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